Re: Insert-Symbol-Enhancement

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Mon Mar 26 2007 - 16:33:45 CEST

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:02 +0200, Michael Rosenbruch wrote:
> Hi,
> this patch enhance the gtk-insert-symbol-dialog.
> Here is the list of the new features:
> - shows all characters of a font (scrollbar)
> - resize correct
> - don't crash if you try to insert a non existing character.
>
> I need such a version of insert-symbol (not the gucharmap) because some
> dingsbats-fonts are not usable with gucharmap. Gucharmap had other
> issues, that if you select a character not in the chosen font you get
> wired things.
>
> This patch may break some non unix-builds, but I have not tested that.

Didn't look at the actual code yet, but this does solve the crash I have
when I open the Insert Symbol dialog, and it generally seems to work
nicely.

Tomas: this touches the character measuring, would you care to comment
on those parts?

Marc
Received on Mon Mar 26 16:33:04 2007

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